Associations to the word «Shakeout»

SHAKEOUT, noun. An event that causes marginal constituents to be eliminated.

SHAKEOUT, noun. (engineering) The separation of molds from their flask, the castings from the molding sand, and potentially the cores from the castings.

SHAKEOUT, noun. An economic condition that results in the elimination of marginally financed participants in an industry; "they glutted the market in order to cause a shakeout of their competitors".